Kristin Lucas

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| name = Kristin Lucas

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| birth_date = 1968

| birth_place = Davenport, Iowa{{cite web|title=Kristin Lucas|url=http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=267|website=Electronic Arts Intermix|publisher=EAI|accessdate=24 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070204/http://www.eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=267|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

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| nationality = American

| field = Performance art and video art

| training = MFA Stanford University, BFA Cooper Union

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Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal.{{cite book|last1=Butler|first1=Cornelia|last2=Schwartz|first2=Alexandra|last3=Pollock|first3=Griselda|title=Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art|date=2010|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|location=New York|isbn=978-0870707711|pages=[https://archive.org/details/modernwomenwomen0000unse/page/512 512]|url=https://archive.org/details/modernwomenwomen0000unse/page/512|accessdate=13 June 2015}}{{Failed verification|date=October 2022}} In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.{{cite journal|last1=Rush|first1=Michael|title=Kristin Lucas at Postmasters|journal=Art in America|date=April 2008|page=159|url=http://www.postmastersart.com/artists/kristin_lucas/kirstinlucas_artinamerica.pdf|accessdate=13 June 2015}}

A key theme in Lucas' work is the blurring boundary between humanity and technology and the relationship between technology and disease. Her character often presents a diseased body to be diagnosed by technology.{{cite book|last1=High|first1=Kathy|last2=Miller Hocking|first2=Sherry|last3=Jimenez|first3=Mona|title=The Emergence of Video Processing Tools|date=2014|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=9781841506630|page=207|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYdiAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22kristin+lucas%22&pg=PA207|accessdate=13 June 2015}} In Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive (2007), her character grows digital sores on her skin.{{cite journal|last1=O'Neill-Butler|first1=Lauren|title=Kristin Lucas, Postmasters Gallery|journal=Art Forum|date=January 2008|url=http://www.postmastersart.com/artists/kristin_lucas/kirstinlucas_artforum08.pdf|accessdate=13 June 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Rush|first1=Michael|title=Kristin Lucas at Postmasters|journal=Art in America|date=April 2008|page=159|url=http://www.postmastersart.com/artists/kristin_lucas/kirstinlucas_artinamerica.pdf|accessdate=13 June 2015}} She explored this theme in her 2007 work Change of Name, where she legally changed her name to the same name. When she went before the judge at the hearing, she poetically used words like "refresh" "empty my cache" and "reboot." This work has been called an "ontological intervention" that negotiates the boundary "between the body and the machine."{{cite book|last1=Cubitt|first1=Sean|last2=Thomas|first2=Paul|title=Relive Media Art Histories|date=2013|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=9780262019422|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXTtAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22kristin+lucas%22&pg=PA31|accessdate=13 June 2015}} Identity exchange appeared again in her and Andrew Kortina's contribution to Rhizome at the New Museum's Seven on Seven project, where they proposed using Twitter as an interface for swapping identities.{{cite web|last1=Wilson|first1=Michael|title=Phreaks and Geeks|url=http://artforum.com/diary/id=25360|website=Artforum.com|publisher=Art Forum|accessdate=13 June 2015}}

Lucas' work has been commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web|title=BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD DRIVE|url=http://awp.diaart.org/lucas/index.php/intro.php|publisher=Dia Art Foundation|accessdate=13 June 2015|archive-date=15 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615082428/http://awp.diaart.org/lucas/index.php/intro.php|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=The Collection: Kristin Lucas|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=26371|publisher=MoMA|accessdate=13 June 2015}} Her videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and her work is represented by Postmasters.{{cite web|title=Kristin Lucas|url=http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=267|publisher=Electronic Arts Intermix|accessdate=13 June 2015}}Lucas' artworks, such as “Password” (2007), “Involuntary Reception (excerpts)” (2000) and “Host” (1997) can be found in the [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/8946249 Experimental Television Center Archive], Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University Library. Lucas was an Eyebeam resident in 2013.{{Cite web|title = Kristin Lucas {{!}} eyebeam.org|url = http://eyebeam.org/people/kristin-lucas|website = eyebeam.org| date=2 May 2013 |access-date = 2016-01-28}}{{Cite web|title = Kristin Lucas - Department of Art and Art History - The University of Texas at Austin|url = https://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah/about/people/kristin-lucas|website = www.utexas.edu|access-date = 2016-01-28}}